"The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is a sequel to the sleeper hit from 2012, about the rundown Indian hotel that caters to British pensioners. The first film was based on Deborah Moggach's novel of the same name; the sequel is screenwriter Ol Parker's attempt to recapture the magic. Most of the same cast is back, in addition to Richard Gere.

Other big films this week are "Chappie" and "Unfinished Business," along with "Queen and Country, " the documentary "Red Army," Adam Corolla's "Road Hard" and "Kidnapping Mr. Heineken."

'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'

Director: John Madden.

Cast: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel.

Rating: PG for some language and suggestive comments.

Sonny (Patel) dreams of opening a second hotel for the elderly and beautiful after two guests show up but he has only one vacancy. Competing for his time and attention is his upcoming marriage to the lovely Suniana, the love of his life.

'Chappie'

Director: Neill Blomkamp.

Cast: Sharito Copley, Dev Patel, Ninja.

Rating: R for language, violence, brief nudity.

In this tale of the near future, robot cops ruthlessly control the humans. Then one of the bots is stolen and reprogrammed so that it thinks and feels emotions. That will never do, so the powers that be pull out all the stops to pull the plug on Chappie. (Blomkamp directed "District 9," another dark look at the future; that one dealt with repulsive aliens who had a taste for dog food.)

'Unfinished Business'

Director: Ken Scott.

Cast: Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco.

Rating: R for some strong risque sexual content/graphic nudity, and for language and drug use.

Things go completely off the rails when a small-business owner and his associated travel to Europe to close a huge deal. And by off the rails, we mean a romp at a sex festival and a run-in with police guarding a high-level economic summit.

'Queen and Country'

Director: John Boorman.

Cast: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt.

Rating: Not rated.

"Queen and Country" is the sequel to 1987's "Hope and Glory," in which 9-year-old Bill rejoices when an errant Luftwaffe bomb destroys his grade school. It's now the early 1950s, and Bill (Turner) and best mate Percy (Jones) have joined the British army. The never get near any fighting but spend their time battling the "Catch-22"-style officers on their base and trying to find girls in town.

'Red Army'

Director: Gabe Polsky.

Cast: Vyacheslav Fetisov, Scotty Bowman, Anatoli Karpov.

Rating: PG for thematic material and language.

Polsky's documentary looks at the mighty Soviet army hockey team through the eyes of its players over the years, and its relationship to Russian cultural shifts after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

'Kidnapping Mr. Heineken'

Director: Daniel Alfredson.

Cast: Sam Worthington, Anthony Hopkins, Jim Sturgess.

Rating: R for language throughout.

The drama looks at the planning, execution and aftermath of the kidnapping of beer magnate Alfred Heineken in 1983 by members of the Dutch underworld. Heineken, grandson of the brewery's founder, was freed after his family paid the largest ransom ever for one person.

'Road Hard'

Directors: Adam Corolla, Kevin Hench.

Cast: Mindy Robinson, Jay Mohr, Diane Farr, Adam Corolla.

Rating: Not rated.

Corolla co-wrote, co-directed and stars in this film about a comedian who must go back on the grueling stand-up circuit after his movie and TV career evaporates and he goes through a messy divorce.